It's still far too early for me to write much about it, but maybe I'll have more to say in the future. So far, I've taken a single-session introductory class at

It's still far too early for me to write much about it, but maybe I'll have more to say in the future. So far, I've taken a single-session introductory class at a smithy a couple towns over and gone back a few times since then for some self-directed practice. My range of techniques is very limited, and even without straying too far from what I know, I am still frequently surprised by what turns out to be easy and what turns out to be hard. I don't remember going through such a stage with coding. I was not exposed to the notion of algorithms or programming techniques or commonly-encountered sub-problems until long after I started, so I couldn't really think about difficulty in those terms.